Impact of Large-Scale Agrofuel Production to the Food Sovereignty in Asia
Working Paper of Institute for National and Democratic Studies
In the context of climate change issue, biofuel are meant as an adaptation to the worsening effect of fossil fuel utilization that related to acts by humans that change the environment and influence climate or called “anthropogenic factors. Talks on biofuels issue due related to climate and oil crisis was initiated when the world has not yet succeeded in reducing the fossil fuel. Demand on oil still high and predicted will always increasing in the next years. In other hand, the world oil or fossil fuel reserves has been predicted decline. Thus, its not only increases the vulnerability of the planet—impacted by the greenhouse gas emission caused by fossil fuel combustion—but also to the global economic sustainability because oil are more and more become the object of speculation. The rapid growth of the world economy in recent years has strained capacity of oil markets, resulting in an unprecedented price rise. These prices are unprecedented and against the interest of both consuming and producing countries. Read the rest of this entry »
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